After completing this presentation, learners will be able to:
- Explain and define the revise process of the assessment cycle.
- Explain factors that can influence assessment metrics beyond course alignment.
- Discuss how assessment metrics are used to revise a course/program.
Last week looked at the third step of the assessment cycle -- assess. We reviewed metric reports based on rubrics to determine how students were meeting course goals.
This week, we are going to be focusing on step four and the final step of the assessment cycle loop: revise. After viewing all of the data that show student outcomes from step three, an educator can then determine how well aligned material may be to an objective in the final step of the assessment cycle.
This is the golden question and why we as educators cannot solely rely on performance in a course to determine overall effectiveness. Reviewing feedback from students is one way to help gather data. At Goodwin, we survey students each semester, this feedback can be invaluable to the revise process.
There are all kinds of factors that can effect performance. Some students may be second guessing their decision to attend college. We see this very often in 100 level courses. World events can shape student performance.
Other factors can be program alignment for the entire major. If a student is expected to come in to your course with a base set of skills but does not have those skills, than other courses within the program may need to be revised so students are ready for your course.
Remember in the first session of this training where we said everything we do is for the students? This where the revise process comes into play.
In assessment, we call this "closing the loop". Do students need additional resources? Retention support? Academic tutoring? Sometimes, we have room to improve student effectiveness not by changing our curriculum, but by the tools and services we give students to learn.
That's it! That's the entire assessment cycle. We than start back at step one and complete the process all over again; ideally, annually.
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